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Frédéric Chopin - Variations on 'La ci darem la mano' in B flat major, Op 2

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Max Richter - Recomposed: Vivaldi - The four seasons

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Fanny Mendelssohn - Klavierbuch in E Minor

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John Adams - Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra (1985)

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Philip Glass - Company (for String Orchestra)

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Max Richter - Opus 2020

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Kommt, ihr Töchter (St Matthew Passion, BWV 244)

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Clara Schumann - Sie liebten sich beide, Op 13 No 2

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Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto (3rd mvt)

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Samuel Barber - Agnus Dei

2019-01-18

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Frédéric Chopin - Variations on 'La ci darem la mano' in B flat major, Op 2

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Fanny Mendelssohn - Klavierbuch in E Minor

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John Adams - Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra (1985)

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Philip Glass - Company (for String Orchestra)

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Fantasia in D minor

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William Byrd - Ave verum corpus

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Carl Maria von Weber - Invitation to the Dance

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Alexander Borodin - In the Steppes of Central Asia

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Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev - Islamey

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George Butterworth - The Banks of Green Willow

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John Ireland - Sea Fever

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Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Greensleeves

1972-10-01

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BBC Radio 3 is a British radio station operated by the BBC. Its output centres on classical music and opera, but jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also feature. The station is the world's most significant commissioner of new music, and through its New Generation Artists scheme promotes young musicians of all nationalities. The station broadcasts the BBC Proms concerts, live and in full, each summer in addition to performances by the BBC Orchestras and Singers. There are regular productions of both classic plays and newly commissioned drama. Radio 3 won the Sony Radio Academy UK Station of the Year Gold Award for 2009 and was nominated again in 2011.

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